🚀 go-pugleaf

hi Bubba
first... YOU ARE MY HERO for finally putting all of this anarchy in one place.
I've got a similar setup as you (though slightly older). If you uninstall
everything, then re-install starting with the DVD player using "custom install"
for everything - this will give you some access to things not being installed
into the system tray, or better yet, not installed at all. For the crap that
does, run "msconfig" (start|run|msconfig) and select the startup tab (or
something like that) and uncheck everything except systray.exe one by one (you
might have some important ones that need to stay).  Also, you really could
disable EAX? From my experience, you can keep it from loading in the system
tray, but it cannot be disabled - I have to go to "audioHQ|speakers" and set the
"current super environment" to none or my CD player is over-toned (did you ever
turn up all of the tone controls on your stereo to the top and marvel as to how
distorted it sounds) - this REALLY sounds shitty at 200 watts per channel with
600 watts of bass. As for deluxe CD player - that's what it's supposed to do,
automatically play CD's - oh well, it's really easy to turn off. Disk Detector
in my opinion is really kinda useful once you get to know it - it complements
windoze autoinsert, allows control where there was none before and the best I
can figure uses no measurable resources.

peace!
Tom (who?) at Bear Creek



Bubba Harper wrote:

> I'm sure I'm not the first person to complain about this, but the threads
> only go back so far and I cna't find any references to it anywhere. I just
> rebuilt my system with these specs:
>
> PIII 850
> Tyan Tiger 100 motherboard
> 512 Meg Ram
> Diamond Viper 550 video Card
> HP9310 CDRW
> Creative Encore 12X w/DXR3 card
> Soundblaster Live! Platinum 5.1 with LiveDrive II
> Intel Ethernet card
>
> Everything is in working order and I couldn't be happier with the
> configuration! The DXR3 video leaves something to be desired, and I'm
> interested in finding out more about the H+ drivers that everyone is talking
> about, but will read for more information on that. So what am I complaining
> about? Let's see, since installing the software that comes with all of my
> wonderful toys, I've got about fifty creative programs running in the
> background and popping up all over the place and fighting with each other
> and with Windoze as to who is going to play what! I upgraded the remote
> manager, and now all of a sudden I have this OnScreen remote that I have to
> disable after every reboot! What the hell is this for? It's a graphical
> representation of the remote and functions like the remote but I have the
> remote so why put it on the screen, besides, if I'm sitting at my computer
> why do I need the remote when everything is but a mouse click away in the
> appropriate areas. How can I disable this permanently? That and every time I
> put an audio CD into a drive, the deluxe CD player pops up, the Playcenter
> player pops up, and then the remote player wants to play it also! My
> computer is starting to remind me of our Federal government! While everyone
> hates Mickey Soft, You have to give them credit for having integration down
> pat! Creative, are you listening? Why are you giving me so many players and
> hogging all my resources with your little monitoring programs and stuff. I'm
> so over all of this system tray stuff. I don't even load my Anti virus Auto
> protect anymore. If I let every little monitoring program run on all the
> software I have installed, I end up with 65% resources to start with! By the
> time I load one program, it's down to 50%! Okay, so here's the scoop. I like
> the remotecenter, but it doesn't have the CDDB capability. That and the fact
> that the minute I start an Audio CD, Creative thinks that I want to watch
> their goofy little visualization while it's playing and automatically full
> screens my desktop. I can't find out how to disable that. All I can find is
> I have to go to the option of Switch back to desktop everytime! What a pain!
> I haven't found out how to turn it off in MS's media player but when I do,
> I'm turning it off there also. If I'm listening to a cd on my computer, it's
> usually when I want to do something else on there and don't have time to
> watch the pretty colors, if I'm not on the computer and just using it as a
> player, the last thing I'm doing is looking at the pretty colors! I feel
> like I've been thrown back into the sixties and forced on bad acid trips!
> Next is this disk detector stuff. It's built into windoze, why does creative
> think they need to reinvent it? Why not play nicely together and just
> integrate into Windows with file associations? Okay, I know how to disable
> Audio HQ from starting up, but wouldn't it be easier to integrate that
> control into windows volume control without running another six applets?
> Nice little buttons on the Audio properties like the advanced settings. I
> don't use my EAX settings when I'm listening to music so I had to unload the
> autoEAX that creative tried to load also. I love it in the games but very
> seldom am I sitting at my computer trying to recreate a concert hall! Not
> saying it's not fun at times to play with but usually, it's the last thing I
> think about (usually I'm sitting there in my financial program trying to
> figure out how much money I've spent on this stuff!). Okay, whenever I put a
> DVD into the drive, I have two creative programs trying to decide which is
> going to play it. Disc detector detects it and tries to play one program and
> the DVD player that came with the drive wants to play it also, and I usually
> end up with a GPF between the two or a little "notice" that another program
> has control of the drive and it never ends up playing until I go to the
> Start menu and manually start the DVD from there. Then the remote doesn't
> even integrate with the DVD player. Did something go awry in my installation
> somewhere? I'd love to hear if you guys are as frustrated as I am about this
> and what you have done to tame Creative's lust for resources and controls!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bubba